Non-Stop Trouble with My Double 4K 1984

All these rhetorical questions were an introduction to the unique atmosphere of the film, filled with exquisite artifacts from our recent past. I doubt that today's youth will appreciate the atmosphere of this film, since a light comedy of manners, filmed in 1984 and not pretending to be anything serious, is unlikely to fit into the consciousness of a person who grew up on Hollywood novelties and has never held a corded telephone in their hands.

The film Non-Stop Trouble with My Double is filled with the bright colors of the 1980s. When it was released in theaters in the late 1980s, it became almost a calling card for the foreign socialist camp. All the trappings of foreign life, which now elicit nothing but irony and smiles, were perceived in those years as perfection, something the USSR still had a long way to go to achieve.

Moving from a description of the film's atmosphere to its essence, it is impossible not to mention the excellent performance of Dieter Jürgen “Didi” Hallerworden, the legendary German theater and film actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, and singer. In this film, he not only played two leading roles (yes, it happens), but also acted as a screenwriter.

The owner of a huge corporation, millionaire Hans Immer, accidentally meets a simple bartender who looks exactly like him. For a number of reasons, he asks his doppelganger to replace him as the company's director for just a couple of days in exchange for a large reward... This leads to a host of curious incidents and unpredictable situations. This film is not just a comedy, but a comedy of situations, and there is a difference. The simple comic situations in the spirit of the best French comedies of those years lift the mood and do not burden the viewer with subtle and lofty matters.

However, there are still subtleties in this film. I won't lie if I say that I was surprised to see an episode in a German film where President Reagan is called a moron...

Another subtlety for film connoisseurs. Remember the legendary Soviet-Polish film Déjà Vu? There was a scene where the fleeing bakery owner Mick Nich joins a group of marching pioneers and waves a flag. Well, this scene was completely copied by director Juliusz Machulski from the film Non-Stop Trouble with My Double!